Peter Sloterdijk Quotes
- How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around…
- Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.
- Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in…
- Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.
- As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone…
- In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of…
- The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows…